Tag: Franz Josef Strauss
European elections: About the changeable relationship between the CSU and Europe – Bavaria
The relationship between the CSU and Europe is changeable: sometimes there is polemic, sometimes great things are invoked. And today, in the European election year 2024? A visit to Bernd…
The Main-Danube Canal and the controversy surrounding its completion – Bavaria
The first section of the Main-Danube Canal between Bamberg and Nuremberg was completed unhindered in 1972. But then over the next 20 years there were heated controversies surrounding its completion.…
Among Bavaria: Among brothers – Bavaria
Munich, October 1st. The non-partisan historians’ commission “Bayern-Sumpf” presented the results of its four-year research work on Sunday. According to the final report, several “so-called scandals” in the country’s history…
History: How the Bavarians became Europeans
75 years ago, the Bavarian state parliament called on the state government to support the “United States of Europe”. From then on, European unification was virtually a “state goal of…
SZ series: This is how Bavaria ticks, episode 4: Amigos, spy calls and spilled aviation fuel
Throughout its history, the CSU has repeatedly been rocked by all kinds of violent turbulence. But there is an important difference to the current affair surrounding Hubert Aiwanger. source site
CSU in 2021: triumph and disaster, very close together – Bavaria
The whole republic is looking to Munich, again. Markus Söder wants to become the Union’s candidate for chancellor, maybe that’s why he quotes two chancellors on this April day in…
CSU publishes interview with Franz Josef Strauss – Bavaria
People have always sought contact with the hereafter, not just those who believe that things will go on somehow after death. Spiritists, for example, were very popular in the 19th…
August von Finck is dead: billionaire, opponent of the euro, Gauweiler friend – Munich
It was one of the last of its kind. Billionaire, patriarch, ruler of a corporate empire, shy of publicity, not looking for the big stage. Nevertheless, power-conscious and influential, or…
Bavaria: Finance ministers are the real kings – Bavaria
Finance minister must be a wonderful job. It’s only slowly becoming clear to you now that everyone in Berlin wanted it. It used to be thought that this was the…
CSU base: After the federal election, the party is wrestling with itself. – Bavaria
September 28, 2021, 5:06 p.m. CSU base : “Away from the one-man show Markus Söder” Open detailed view Will stick to his course despite the defeat: Prime Minister Markus Söder.…